Light field camera to take pictures and simple some?

Camera technology is gradually growing, now basic every utilization rate are greatly common to the two are one. So people will pursue a better camera, the other not so complicated. We have to solve the people often confused - light field camera to take pictures simple some?

Before first light field camera, the camera can capture a scene from all the direction of the light, can let users focus again after finished photos with the aid of computer in processing, processing after the photo effect is perfect.

Light Field Camera (Light Field Camera), as the name implies, it is no longer a capture by smooth surface, but the Light Field (Light Field). When researchers in order to capture the light field, a full 100 camera. Now, just released by light field camera is small enough to be directly carried it into his pocket.

Actually before the Lytro also have a company in the production of light field camera: Germany Raytrix company, just Raytrix focus on industrial and scientific research applications of light field camera, the Lytro from its inception took aim to build a suitable for ordinary consumers to use light field camera. Lytro wants to borrow a new product that rewrite camera market rules. The Lytro camera size is 41 mm x 41 mm x 112 mm; Used the ultra-light aluminum alloy shell, airframe weight only 214 grams; Carrying Lytro their light field sensors, as well as the Lytro light engine 1.0 technology; 8 x optical zoom; F / 2 fixed aperture; 11 million pixels; 1.6 square feet touch screen LCD; Built-in a high-performance lithium-ion batteries.

Light from the appearance point of view, the Lytro is different. The whole body is a cuboid, consists of two parts, tonal and fitting. Section is smooth surface of the lens barrel, a section is the "brain" of the camera, with digital chip, touch LCD screen, high capacity lithium battery, and the most key of micro lenses (microlens) module. Shutter rows on top of the camera, is designed to be a circular groove. At the same time the camera is equipped with a USB interface and a zoom slider, the zoom slider to control 8 x optical zoom, the focal length of 35-280 - mm zoom lens f / 2. These is conspicuous industrial design, but the biggest breakthrough is inside the camera.

Traditional cameras using is a single point of focus of image sensor, this means that there can be only one direction of the light reaches the sensor, the users can get only part of the image a scene, that is to say the shooting scene can only have one part of the key highlights. Which is similar with the structure and principles of the human eye, limitations are obvious.

And the light field photography solves this problem well. Lytro light field sensor is the core of the camera technology, it can be collected into the camera all the wavelength of light, the intensity and direction, coupled with Lytro optical engine 1.0 technology, using computer to convert these information the adult eye can see the image. Because the camera captures the entire light field's information, so in addition to the changed focus, move perspective has become a possibility. As a result, the light field camera shot is a 3 d scenes, and people can choose according to the needs and preferences of the individuals they want to see photos. But Lytro also said that although now use Lytro is 3 d pictures, but need the support of software level, now offers the Lytro software does not have the function that browse the 3 d effect.

On the software side, the Lytro in Mac OS X (10.6 above need Mac OS X) has developed a free platform application, the user can through the software easily, to camera photo import, processing and sharing to the user's friends. The Windows version of the free application will be released in 2012, at the same time, the Lytro has released mobile phone version of the plan.

In addition, the camera will increase next year 3 d function (software), let's wait and see. Finally attach a Lytro camera sample address, can online experience focusing transformation, click on the photos somewhere can focus, very fun.